AUGUST 29 1923
ASHDOWN TRADE EDITION
Ashdown has:
two sound banking institutions
four exclusive dry goods stores, carrying large stocks of up-to-date and staple merchanidise, such as could be found in any modern city store.
four general merchandise establishments, carrying both dry goods and groceries and farm supplies
two large hardware and furniture stores, carrying standard lines of farm machinery and everything likely to be found in any store of the kind
one variety store, carrying a large stock of popular merchandise and novelties
eight exclusive grocery stores furnishing as good service and as low priced merchanidse as it would be possible to find
four meat markets with cold storage, buying and selling fresh, cured and canned meats
four modern drug stores, each one with registered pharmacists and each carrying large stocks
one jewelry store, one of the best in the state
two automobile and automobile supply agencies with everything that motorists need
three garages or automobile repair shops, with efficient mechanics
three gasoline filling stations
one up-to-date millinery store
one bakery with large baking capacity
three wholesale grocery concerns, selling over a large territory to the wholesale trade
These concerns also carry feed.
two wholesale gasoline and oil wholesale concerns, supplying the retail stations over this section
one undertaking business
four blacksmith and repair shops
one cleaning and press shop
two shoe repair shops with expert workmen
three barber shops
three plumbers, with one specializing in plumbing and sheet metal work
five hotels, one a modern three-story brick, with all modern equipment
three splendid restuarants
one creamery and bottling works
two grist mills
four cotton gins, 250 bales daily capacity
one large cotton seed oil mill, four cotton offices
one saw mill and planing mill and several operating in the vicinity of Ashdown
one handle factory
one big cotton compress, the plant covering six acres
one potato curing house
electric light plant
one ice plant and cold storage
two abstract offices
three fire insurance agencies
three concerns in real estate
six or seven concerns dealing in farm and city loans. The office of the Little River Federal Farm Loan Association is located here.
Among the professions we have:
five firms of lawyers with more than a local reputation and standing
six physicians of professional standing
one dental office
one twice a week newspaper with modern job printing plant, transportation facilities of Ashdown and Little River County.